Scorching Stocking Stuffers: The Essential Erotic Novel Gift List

If the answer is nice, then it’s time to remedy that with something dirtier than a lump of coal in your stocking this Christmas: my essential erotic novel gift list. These books all have two things in common: they will make St. Nick blush redder than his suit, and they are as timeless as tinsel on your tree.

Mistral’s Daughter byJudith Krantz

An epic novel of art, fashion, super-hot sex, that begins with an erotic romp through sumptuous 1920s Paris and follows three generations of super-fab redheads.

Why it makes the list: The anti-hero, Julian Mistral, who seduces and betrays the heroine, Maggie, only to fall in love with her daughter twenty years later.

Damage by Josephine Hart

A taut, devastating tale of a member of British Parliament falling madly in love with his son’s fiancé.

Why it makes the list: An affair so wrong it deserves a punishing conclusion— and Josephine Hart gives us one.

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice (writing as A.N. Roquelaure)

Jong’s classic novel of marital ennui and sexual fantasy. Almost forty years old, this novel holds up—plenty of heart and wit along with the sex.

Why it makes the list: coined the phrase “zipless fuck”

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Help make this naughty novel list the gift that keeps on giving: What are some books that you’d be embarrassed to ask Santa to bring?

Jamie Brenner is the author of erotic novels published under the pen name Logan Belle, including her latest Bettie Page Presents: The Librarian ( Pocket Star/Simon & Schuster) and the erotic trilogy Blue Angel (Kensington.) Her historical romance The Gin Lovers, will be out in paperback in February (St. Martin’s Press). For more please visit www.jamiebrenner.com or follow her @jamieLbrenner.

Ha! I read that book when I was on the cusp of 14 years old. My grandmother freaked out when she saw what I was reading. I finished it in a day. I think it was on that exact day that my grandmother and I stopped getting along during my adolesence.